some destroyed
some fragments
some broken
shattered
s-pli-t
in various stages & forms

of decay & destruction

whittled by history
whittled by time
whittled by civilization

whittled by each present

erasing each past
to create a future that never comes
but/and is only — ? — a force

of erasure

& destruction
a shattering power that opens a melancholic pathway
a force of violence & mourning
or which can give rise to each within us

thru our ability, or inability,
to countenance the merciless

shaping force of the future

TIME THE SCULPTOR
like Apollo skinning Marsyas
for his desire

to sustain primitive,

primordial powers
the sublime Entartete Künstler

degenerate?

of genesis

Is this not an unending,

ceaseless oscillation
of unified forces

which both destroy & sustain each other
in order to create yet something else

between or out of them
& their contest
It is an agon that gives birth

to a monstrum
a creature too terrifying for us to conceive
but which has to be created
against our will
& in the midst of our destruction
Hence the mourning & melancholy
but also the terrible —— terrifyingly ecstatic ——